Data from MUSO suggests that while music theft has shrunk in the Spotify era, it's premature to consider the threat neutralized ...

Software piracy has been broadly condemned by large vendors, particularly through their participation in the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

This type of piracy is the illegal duplication and sale of copyrighted material with the intent of directly imitating the copyrighted product. In the case of packaged software, it is common to ...

While board directors realise piracy is a problem, and ultimately must shoulder any blame, they would appear to be being increasingly lenient with staff who break the terms of their software licences.

PC software piracy on the rise Now, for what software makers don’t want to hear: “However, because the worldwide PC market grew fastest in high-piracy countries,” states the report, “the ...

The software group considered some of what turned up to be pirated, and demanded that the college pay $20,473 to the group’s copyright-protection fund. To continue reading for FREE, please sign in.

Forty percent of the students surveyed at two public universities admitted to having pirated computer software. The survey was completed by 703 students at the University of Florida at Gainesville ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to taking part in a $100 million international software piracy plot has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Thirty-six-year-old ...

Free Software advocate Karsten M. Self, a programmer and network administrator, keeps an old essay critiquing a piracy study from the late ’90s on his personal Web site.

The piracy rate was calculated by measuring the difference between the estimated demand for 26 business software applications in different markets and the legal supply of those applications ...

While the overall software piracy rate worldwide remained at 35% last year — the same as in 2004 — the piracy rate in 51 of the 97 countries surveyed declined, according to a new study done ...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Piracy continues to represent a major thorn in the side of software vendors, with over a third of software installed last year on the world's computers having been ...